Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.